SAC Buffalo to SAC Seattle re suspect Alvin Melvin Johnston, aka Tex
Document date 30 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-12:147-149 Document: Teletype SAC Buffalo to SAC Seattle re suspect Alvin Melvin Johnston, aka Tex Id: Cooper-Part-12:147-149 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-12%3A147-149 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 12 pp. 147–149 (DB Cooper-2278–2280), Teletype, dated 30 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-12%3A147-149
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Date: 11/30/71
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TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: SAC, BUFFALO (164-0)
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOV TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO SEATTLE.
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SUSP Sub # J
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REMYTEL CALL TODAY.
[REDACTED] (PROTECT IDENTITY), [REDACTED] [REDACTED] ADVISED THIS DATE THAT ALVIN MELVIN JOHNSTON, AKA TEX, MIGHT BE CONSIDERED A POSSIBLE SUSPECT IN CAPTIONED MATTER.
[REDACTED] SAID JOHNSTON [REDACTED]
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DEH:bmb (1) [illegible] Approved: [signature] Special Agent in Charge Searched___ Indexed___ Sent___ M Per___ Filed [stamp] NOV 30 1971
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE [illegible]
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DB Cooper-2278
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BH 164-0 PAGE TWO
[REDACTED] [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] STATED JOHNSTON [REDACTED]
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[REDACTED] FELT JOHNSTON'S [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] AND PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION WOULD MAKE HIM LOGICAL SUSPECT.
[REDACTED] DESCRIBED JOHNSTON AS OF [REDACTED] AS W/M. DOB AUG EIGHT FOURTEEN (LOOKS YOUNGER THAN FIFTYSEVEN), SIX FT ONE IN, ONE HUNDRED NINETY LBS, THINNING HAIR, PARTIALLY BALD, MUSTACHE, [REDACTED] AVID HUNTER AND FLYER.
RECENT PHOTO OF JOHNSTON AVAILABLE IN [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] REQUESTED HIS IDENTITY AS SOURCE OF INFORMATION BE MAINTAINED IN STRICT CONFIDENCE
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Approved: ___________ Sent ___________ M Per ___________ Special Agent in Charge
☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971—413—152
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DB Cooper-2279
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BU 164-0
PAGE THREE
DUE TO FACT JOHNSTON [REDACTED]
[REDACTED]
ADDITIONAL LEADS BEING LEFT TO DISCRETION SEATTLE OFFICE.
RUC.
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DB Cooper-2280